The inaugural LFA featherweight championship fight was a relatively uneventful affair – until it wasn’t.

Kevin Aguilar (12-1) emerged victorious in the first LFA featherweight title bout when he put Damon Jackson (11-2-1) to sleep with a violent one-punch knockout in the main event of Friday’s LFA 4 headliner at Horseshoe Bossier City Hotel and Casino Bossier City, Lou. The main card aired on AXS TV.

Aguilar came out sharp early when he buckled Jackson’s legs with a jab in the opening moments of the fight. The bout slowed to a grinding halt shortly thereafter, with several uneventful exchanges both in the striking and grappling apartment.

The lackluster bout continued into the third round when a fight-ending change of momentum occurred. Jackson overcommitted with a left hand, which exposed his chin for the counter-strike. Aguilar perfectly timed the shot and responded with a right hook that dropped his opponent to he canvas.

Although Jackson was out on impact from the initial blow, Aguilar followed with one additional hammerfist on the mat, which connected clean on the chin and opened a cut below Jackson’s left eye to end the contest at the 4:05 mark of Round 3.

Aguilar said in his post-fight interview with Ron Kruck he was honored to be LFA’s first 145-pound champion, but already has sights set on his first title defense.

“The next best fight for me is the next best competition,” Aguilar said. “Whoever is at the top I want to get that much taller.”

Andrea Lee torches Bassett to win flyweight title

The inaugural LFA women’s flyweight title fight was all one-way traffic for Andrea Lee (6-2). She utterly dominated Heather Bassett (4-3) for nearly three full rounds to capture the newly created organization’s first 125-pound title.

“KGB” had her way with Bassett both on the feet and on the ground before finishing the fight with a belly-down armbar at the 3:40 mark of Round 3, marking her second victory in a 34-day stretch after scoring a first-round TKO of Jenny Liou at Invicta FC 21 in January.

The opening round was a display of Lee’s striking. She tore Bassett apart from range, then attacked with a ruthless onslaught of knees to the body and elbows to the head from inside the clinch. Bassett showed tremendous toughness after falling behind early, but aside from briefly establishing top control in the second round was able to get any momentum going.

Bassett took a tremendous beating from Lee throughout the second and into the third before getting on top and threatening with multiple submissions before finally transitioning into the armbar to force the tap.

“It feels so surreal (to win the title),” Lee said during her post-fight interview. “It feels unreal. She wanted this belt as bad as I did, but I knew I had the opportunity and that’s when I took it.”